<VV> What is up with car sellers these day? RANT!!!

[Eric S. Eberhard]

So, since I have been actively shopping for a decent driver, with a 
fair amount of cash in hand, I have been stunned and amazed at the 
IDIOTS I have run across.

Example 1:

A two sentence description on Craig's list for a 64 Sedan with 
A/C.  NO CONTACT INFO!?!! What's up with that?  So Craig's list has a 
way to email them, and they forward it to the seller, which I do.  I 
ask for more detail, and specifically if the A/C works.  No 
answer.  Every 3 days I email again. I send my phone number and ask 
for the sellers.  12 days later, after 5 emails to the moron, I get 
an answer.  It says the A/C work fine and then parrots what the 2 
sentence add said about the car.  It was a "reply to" my first 
email.  And guess what, NOT CONTACT INFO.  Is this guy an idiot or 
what?  So I email back.   Three days, no answer.  How does anyone 
expect to sell a car?

Example 2:

ebay moron -- after 4 emails over 5 days, no response!!!  I left my 
phone number, I asked for the sellers, of course the seller can reply 
through ebay.  Nothing.  Are they trying to make a sale???  Morons.

It fries me to be a willing and able buyer with cash in hand, and 
simply be unable to consummate a deal because of stupid 
sellers!!!!  Even better the people asking three times what a car is 
worth call me back and nag me, even after I say no.  For example, a 
nice 64 vert in CA.  Has not run in 7 years!  Top was sliced by 
vandals.  Gas tank has hole in it.  Brakes gone.  Rust is 
"superficial."  Upholstery and carpet ruined by water and 
time.  Tires rotted.  Wants $7,500 for it.  yeah, right.  I was born 
at night, just not last night.   They call me 3 times a week and I 
say NO NO NO leave me alone, and then they call again.

It could be, I suppose, that these people with decent prices on 
decent cars don't actually want to sell their car?  I had one, I 
"bought" the car, and for a month, every time I made an appointment 
to pick up the car, the seller had an excuse why I could not come by 
that day.  The truth finally came out -- his wife wanted to sell, he 
did not.  Apparently telling the wife it was sold, and then jerking 
my chain, kept his marriage together.  Great.

I know I'll find the right car eventually :-)  Did not know it would 
be so painful.  Every Corvair I ever bought in the past was "an 
accident" -- meaning I tripped across it and decided to buy it ... 
and so they were mostly pleasant affairs.  It is much harder when one 
actually wants to buy something!!!!


EOR (End of Rant)

Eric


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